My wife is due on April 17. This gives me about 10 weeks. This is our first child and my parents first grandchild. All of us are excited as can be. I guess I'm writing this to just show how excited I am. We are having a girl.

Everything has been smooth so far. My wife and I are 37 and 36 years old and because of this they put her in the 'high risk' category. She's had to do more tests than normal...

The only thing really bothering her other than lack of energy b/c she's peeing 5 or 6 times in the middle of the night is her heartburn. Then last night I come home from work and she's talking about how her back is killing her and she thinks that she has a pinched nerve or at lease what she believes what a pinched nerve would feel like.
My question is has anyone else experienced this? Thanks for letting me ramble.

First of all, definitely address this with your OB at your next appt, you should be at 2 or 3 weeks between appts now. That being said, here is where I'm at.

My 30 year old wife is due April 21. She doesn't have to get up to pee that often at night, 1-2 times at most, and her energy returned at around 15 weeks, however she has had back/nerve issues since about 15 weeks. It started with Sciatica, which is probably due to her being very inflexible. She had to focus on not raising her knees when sitting, and we also got a special pillow that seemed to help a lot.

Then at about 20 weeks she started having shooting pain going up her back while walking. Totally immobilized her when it hit. Doc said that this was caused by the increased hormones (I forget which ones) that begin to prepare the body for childbirth by loosening up the joints in her pelvis. If things don't work perfectly a nerve can end up getting pinched when you twist your body in certain ways. Again, just had to deal with it and focus on not performing any twisting reaching actions. She began to see a chiropractor for this, and thankfully this went from the immobilizing shooting pain to a dull burning ache in her mid-lower back after about 2 weeks.

So she began to see a chiropractor about the dull burning ache. The chiropractor said that the pain was likely referred pain from the baby kicking her ribs, but also is simply due to the excess weight she's carrying in the front. Her OB confirmed the latter, saying there is nothing really they can do except try to manage the pain, suggesting a heating pad or ice pack. We picked up one from Wal-Mart, and it definitely helps. The fact that it straps makes it easy to sleep with.

Watch out for the heart-burn. The wife thought her morning sickness had returned, but the doc correctly suspected heart-burn. So he had her take Prevacid for a couple of weeks (that's all that is allowed) which knocked out the nausea, and now she takes Pepsid before meals and that manages heart burn.

Good luck!

Oh, we're choosing not to find out the sex. It keeps everyone in suspense, but also surprisingly upsets a lot of people.